On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 10:10 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It would be helpful to to provide sufficient info so that a reader of > this changelog can recognize whether this patch might fix some problem > which is being observed. As you can see below the panic log, the accessing 0x402 causes panic. In the xarray.h, 0x402 means RETRY_ENTRY. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000402 CPU: 14 PID: 306003 Comm: as Not tainted 5.9.0-1-amd64 #1 Debian 5.9.1-1 Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665/7D2VCTO1WW, BIOS D8E106Q-1.01 05/30/2020 RIP: 0010:fuse_readahead+0x152/0x470 [fuse] Code: 41 8b 57 18 4c 8d 54 10 ff 4c 89 d6 48 8d 7c 24 10 e8 d2 e3 28 f9 48 85 c0 0f 84 fe 00 00 00 44 89 f2 49 89 04 d4 44 8d 72 01 <48> 8b 10 41 8b 4f 1c 48 c1 ea 10 83 e2 01 80 fa 01 19 d2 81 e2 01 RSP: 0018:ffffad99ceaebc50 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000402 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff94c5af90bd98 RDI: ffffad99ceaebc60 RBP: ffff94ddc1749a00 R08: 0000000000000402 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffff94de6c429ce0 R13: ffff94de6c4d3700 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffad99ceaebd68 FS: 00007f228c5c7040(0000) GS:ffff94de8ed80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000402 CR3: 0000001dbd9b4000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call Trace: read_pages+0x83/0x270 page_cache_readahead_unbounded+0x197/0x230 generic_file_buffered_read+0x57a/0xa20 new_sync_read+0x112/0x1a0 vfs_read+0xf8/0x180 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9